Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A pancreatic enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to form smaller polypeptide units.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The proteolytic ferment which is the active principle of the pancreatic fluid; pancreatine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (physiol.) A proteolytic enzyme present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A digestive enzyme that cleaves peptide bonds (a serine protease).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps Greek trīpsis, a rubbing (from its having been first obtained by rubbing a pancreas with glycerin), from trībein, to rub; see terə- in Indo-European roots + –in.]

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From Greek τρίψιμο ("rubbing") + in.

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Examples

  • Ibrahim had shown that trypsin is not present till seven or eight months of intrauterine development.

    Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • The material may have come from a pig-derived enzyme called trypsin used early in development,

    Arab Times Kuwait English Daily 2010

  • The proteins are chopped into smaller fragments using an enzyme called trypsin; these fragments are then vaporized, ionized, and shot through an electric field.

    Ars Technica 2009

  • Furthermore, a known soy allergen called trypsin inhibitor was as much as 7 times higher in the toasted GM soy, compared to non-GMO soy!

    Jeffrey Smith: Biotech Propaganda Cooks Dangers Out of GM Potatoes 2010

  • You also have to eat alot of foods like sweet potatoes, which have a chemical called trypsin inhibitor in them.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Emma Lurie 2007

  • You also have to eat alot of foods like sweet potatoes, which have a chemical called trypsin inhibitor in them.

    Clostridium perfringens Emma Lurie 2007

  • Raw soybeans, however, contain a substance called a trypsin inhibitor.

    9: Domestic animals 1996

  • Tomita uses a digestive enzyme called trypsin, along with a host of other chemicals, to break down the proteins and muscles, halting the process just at the moment they become transparent but before they lose their form.

    Wired Top Stories jmckeel 2011

  • Using techniques including atomic force microscopy and mass spectrometry, the team found that very similar enzymes, known as trypsin-like serine proteases, are at work in barnacle glue.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • a product made from a transgenic plant-a protein called trypsin produced in corn kernels and sold to the pharmaceutical industry for mammalian cell culturing.

    News from The Scientist 2010

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